and in the streets. we will fight the woke in the halls of congress. we shall fight in the hills. we shall never surrender. we will never ever surrender to the woke mob. so sad. a little historical perspective on wars. there are wars. a little hysterical perspective on this. you know, there was a great profile piece of ron desantis by mark lebovich and it talked about how everything seemed so sort of i don t know i don t know triefd. that it was all just very contrived. when he is going on and on, there will be and he s trying to sound churchillian and he s talking about again, most americans are going, huh? what is this? what? and he just keeps beating it. it s like america is not florida and that one little area in florida, by the way, ron desantis, but he continues to brag about his efforts to fight woke. we ve got a lot to get this this morning. that is seriously so 19 so 2021. it really is. speaking of actual wars, we will have new reporti
Exploring issues that affect leaders in the U. S. And around the globe. Lenders considered for a job in the white house. Well head to the courthouse in a few minutes for more on this developing story, what it means for the president and the Mueller Probe. As big as that legal story is for the presidency tonight, well begin with a Political Development that might be bigger for him and his party because it is happening at the ballot box. You are looking live at people voting in ohios 12 Special Elections where tonights results could show a looming disaster for republicans in november. Recent polls show this race between two generic candidates here, no real superstar, its a coin flip right now. Folks, in a district like ohio 12 which really is a district that straddles the suburbs and the exurbs out there outside of columbus, in play for a democrat like Danny Oconnor, the democrats are looking at a
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Barack obama that he was, like, the fifth gibbs brother. I completely had forgotten about that and as the music came on i could see the regret wash over his face that he had decided to return at long last to morning joe. I missed you guy. We miss you, too. A lot to talk about this morning, mika. Yes of course, you have mitt romney, the courage he showed. Quite a few democrats who show add great deal of courage, too, yesterday. Three or four in particular well be talking about. Absolutely. Who, i mean, whose political lives were on the line. They chose to do what they believed was right. Not what wa be popular back in their state. Of course, the president being acquitted but becomes the first president in the history of this republic, willie, the first president to have a member of his own party vote to remove him from office, and what an extraordinary day yesterday ended up being in washington, d. C. Plus, oh, yeah. Theyre still counting ballots in iowa. Joe, i ran into Steve Kornacki
And she said, he didnt even remember his name. The president defended that call on twitter, saying the congresswomans account was totally fabricated and that he has proof. Later, he was asked about that proof. With the woman, with the wife who sounded like a lovely woman, did not say what the congresswoman said, and most people arent too surprised to say that. What was the proof, mr. President . Let her make her statement again and youll find out. Let her make her statement again and youll find out. So what really happened on that call, and is the president now politicizing the death of a u. S. Service member . Lets get to our reporters who debriefed this. Haley jackson, whos inside the briefing room, hans nichols is at the pentagon, also with us, reporter for the wall street journal and eli stokeles and reporter for the the washington post, eugene scott. Lets start with you, hallie, congresswoman wilson tweeted right after donald trump said that, i still stand by my account of the cal
there are problems of liberalism on college campuses, something i ve been writing about for 20 or 30 years but ron desantis is not dealing with the liberalism in american culture, he is basically just employing a buzzword. a few years ago the buzzword was cancel culture, they started talking about crt and no one knew what they were talking about. they have come up with this word that has become this drone in the background. i think it goes to what you were, you know, referencing mark lebovich s profile of ron desantis, there seems something rote about the guy, inauthentic that somebody has handed him a card and said say this word over and over and over again. you know it s bad when even donald trump is saying nobody knows what the word woke means. to the heart of this in terms of the substance, you know, the fight for democracy is a fight for liberal constitutional